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To: carlo3b
>"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." -- Thomas Jefferson

Oh great! Now we must
puzzle out if everything
Thomas Jefferson

wrote was as stupid
and totally off the mark
as this one, dumb quote...

16 posted on 09/12/2003 7:37:39 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: theFIRMbss
newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." -- Thomas Jefferson...
wrote was as stupid and totally off the mark as this one, dumb quote...

I guess he figured you can't be taxed or thrown in jail by an editor!

25 posted on 09/12/2003 7:42:19 AM PDT by carlo3b (http://www.CookingWithCarlo.com)
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To: theFIRMbss
Color me stupitt then, because I agree, even as disgusting as our media is. Liberty and individual freedom scares you, huh?
45 posted on 09/12/2003 8:05:46 AM PDT by 68 grunt (3/1 India, 3rd, 0311, 68-69)
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To: theFIRMbss
Just curious,
but why
do you format
all of your
posts
this way?
98 posted on 09/12/2003 9:49:19 AM PDT by Charlie OK (If you are a Christian, please drive like one!)
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To: theFIRMbss
***Oh great! Now we must
puzzle out if everything
Thomas Jefferson

wrote was as stupid
and totally off the mark
as this one, dumb quote...***

I suppose you think that the Declaration of Independence was "stupid."

When speaking about newspapers, Jefferson also said that he loved the sound of freedom. Do you object to that, too?
99 posted on 09/12/2003 9:54:25 AM PDT by kitkat
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